Microsoft breaks down WinJS 4.0 preview

Microsoft has released a preview of WinJS 4.0, its open-source, cross-platform Windows library for JavaScript.

The WinJS 4.0 release will be focused on the framework’s universal app, interoperability, and in-class ListView capabilities. The Windows App Team detailed all the new features to come in WinJS 4.0 in a blog post. The most significant details include:

Angular interoperability: Microsoft has developed a new AngularJS-WinJS wrapper to improve compatibility with the framework, including using WinJS controls as Angular directives and integrating Angular two-way data binding.

ListView: ListView in WinJS 4.0 streamlines interaction options for developers, and adds a variety of new features and functionality updates, including an improved interaction model redefining Single, Multi, Extended and Read-Only selection scenarios, and striping capabilities and progressive loading with new ListView footers.

WinJS SplitView: An adaptive layout with a navigation pane and content area within the dashboard to adapt app configurations to different screen sizes, and to model the app on phones, tablets and PCs.

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